Features of CloudShot

Features Overview

Discover what CloudShot can do for you

Instant screenshot capturing and sharing

Never miss a thing you want to capture: CloudShot takes the shot of the entire screen right after you pressed Shot hotkey, click on a tray icon or select Shot in tray menu.

Crop the area you want to shot, add notes if you need you, and hit Upload button. After upload is complete, link will be automatically copied to the clipboard. Just paste to you IM message, email or task manager and share it with others!

Image editor

Need to add some comments on top? Use powerful and stylish image editor. Your edits will always look nice and clean!

All graphical tools are extremely user-friendly but yet quite professional.

Gif Record

Tired of explaining sequence of steps with text or voice? Just record it once and share GIF file with a demo.

CloudShot has quite impressive set of options for recording:

Follow mouse mode allows to record of small area with cursor always in the center
Pause and resume recording
Review GIF you made in built-in player
Restart record in the same area in a single click

Extensive hotkeys

Are you keyboard ninja? All tools and functions are already binded for you!

We have added all typical hotkeys like Ctrl + Enter for uploading and F2 for text changing. Feel free to try all hotkeys you know, or just follow instructions in the tooltips we have for all tools.

Dual screen support

Modern development can't be imagined without dual screen setup. And CloudShot has full support for that. You can even make a screenshot with parts on both screens!

All possible ways for sharing a screenshot

Save your shot as a file, copy it to clipboard, upload via FTP or share using cloud services like Dropbox or Google Drive.

Cloud services integration

With CloudShot you have quite a lot of options for uploading your shots:

Dropbox
Microsoft OneDrive
Google Drive
Imgur

This feature gives you a whole bunch of benefits:

Share you shots with links via Skype, Viber, email and even social networks
Customizable links: direct, regular or shorten
Get your shots on all your devices with no limits or any payments
Full control on access management and privacy
Review and Delete unwanted shots any time
Option to discuss shots with other Dropbox users

Imgur integration

Imgur is an online image hosting service. Using Imgur for upload your shots gives you same benefits as Dropbox. But additionally you can upload images without registration - no account is needed.

FTP upload for http/https access

Public sharing is simple and awesome, but some development WIPs require certain privacy. CloudShot can upload images to FTP server in your studio, keeping everything protected and controlled by your internal IT-team.

You can setup public or private access to your shots via http/https, review and manage all images any time.

Network and local drives

If you need privacy but don't have time for FTP setup, you can setup CloudShot to upload images to network drives. This will provide common access to all shots you've made to user in you internal network with 100% protection of unwanted access from outside.

Whole setup as easy as picking target folder. Few clicks, and you are done!

Features in detail

For nerds and those who pretend to be

How to start capturing with CloudShot

There are three options to start capturing with CloudShot:

Press Shot hotkey. By default it's PrtScr button, but you can change it to any other of your choice
Click on Cloudshot icon in System Tray
Select "Shot" in CloudShot System Tray menu

All three options above works the same, but capturing with hotkey allows you to shot animated UI elements like tooltips, tray popups and menus:

Screenshot of CloudShot System Tray menu made with CloudShot.
Do we really need to go deeper?..

When you make a shot, whole screen is captured. Thus there's no need to rush - take your time and select the area on the screen you want to share, save or copy. CloudShot detects windows, menus and popups - just point element you need to capture and click it - crop area size and position will automatically match highlighted element.

While selecting the area, you may hold Shift button to keep area square and Space to move area of selection around the screen.

After you have selected the area, you will notice two bars on the sides of crop area:

CloudShot crop area with Editor toolbars

Toolbar on the right has tools for editing the shot. E.g. you can add some text, arrows, lines and other shapes to explain your thoughts. Editing shots is described in the next section.

Bottom toolbar has several buttons for operations with the shot such as:

Copy image to clipboard. Use this option to quickly add images to your Word document, Powerpoint presentation or email
Save as file. Use this option if you need to create a file for email attachment or web-page
Upload menu thas has 4 options: Dropbox, Imgur, FTP and Network drive.

Also you can start record with selected region. To do that, simply press camera icon and follow instructions on the screen. Additonal information about recording can be found here.

After you are done with editing, just hit upload button: CloudShot will upload your shot to selected storage, and link will be copied to the clipboard. After that you can paste this link to your IM message, email or task manager and share it. Yep, that easy!

How to use CloudShot image editor

CloudShot has several tools for editing. They are:

Select
Line
Arrow
Frame
Rectangle
Ellipse
Text

Select is the only tool that does not create a thing - it works only for selection. Other tools are used to create different shapes.

To create a shape you need, select corresponding tool, click in the shot area and drag you mouse to set the size of the shape. Same as with crop, you may hold Shift to keep shape square and Space to move shape around.

After you released mouse button, shape automatically gets selected and window with shape properties appears. This window provides options for shape tweaking, such as color, stroke style and text size:

Options for tweaking Rectangle's line

Probably, you have already noticed that - all shapes are independent objects, not just painted strokes. This is really cool feature, because it allows you to tweak shapes after creation. And you can even "transform" one shape to another one with properties change. E.g. Line can be "transformed" to Arrow, if you turn off caps. Frame will become Rectangle if you select transparent fill. Also you can actually transform Frame or Rectangle to Text by pressing Add Text button in properties window. Impressed? Well, we are not surprised - being awesome developers is what we do on daily basis.

In fact, using such shapes is so super cool and convenient that we don't have Undo\Redo system. Yeah, this may sound strange, but we don't feel it's needed, so we decided to save some time and haven't developed it. Please, don't report it as bug or suggestion, we do know about it.

Note that properties window also works fine with multiple shapes selected. Below you can see selected arrow and rectangle, and property window contains only shared parameters. In this case they are line and layering:

Example of shared properties for 2 different shapes

Each tool has a hotkey. We tried to keep hotkeys as simple to remember as possible, thus almost all hotkeys are using first letter of the tool name. E.g. press A to call Arrow Tool. The only tool that doesn't follow this rule is Select - we decided to use V like it's done in Photoshop.

Another cool thing you can do with hotkey only in Duplication: select shape or several shapes hit Ctrl + D. Result will be something like that:

Need several not-default shapes? Use duplication instead of re-creating

Also you can move shapes by pressing arrows. Each press will shift shape on 1 pixel. You may hold arrow keys to speed up movement or hold Shift button. Full list of hotkeys can be found here.